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WWW.INBROADCAST.COM | ISSUE 38 - DECEMBER 2014
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OTS TV Upgrades OB Van
With Grass Valley Gear
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand,
has supplied OTS Novosibirsk,
a regional television company
in Russia, with a suite of HD
equipment for its OB van.
Grass Valley’s Russia and CIS
offi ce, with the support of local
system integrator OKNO-TV,
facilitated the upgrade, integrating
nine LDX Flex advanced imaging
cameras, XCU (eXchangeable
Control Unit) base stations,
Imagestore-Modular master control,
the Densite 3 Frame and NVISION
routing switchers into the OB van.
“Upgrading to HD helps us to
deliver the best viewing experience
possible, which is vital in our effort
to remain a leading provider of
sports coverage, like ice hockey,
Mistika Factor For
‘Marshland’ Post
ESP: Hailed as one of the best 2014
Spanish-language thrillers, the
award-winning film ‘La Isla Minima’
(Marshland) was post-produced
entirely in Mistika.
Directed by Alberto Rodríguez
the film has received several
accolades at the San Sebastian
International Film Festival where it
was recognised as the Best Film in
the Official Section.
It also won the Silver Concha
Award for Best Photography which
went to Alex Catalán.
Filmed using the ARRI Alexa, the
RAW footage was post-produced
in 3K using Mistika.
Colourist and Digital Effects
Supervisor Juan Ventura Pecellín
said that Mistika had enabled work
at resolutions of up to 7K for certain
intricate scenes.
in our area,” said
Vitaliy Morgunov,
General Director at
OTS Novosibirsk.
“We chose Grass Valley
equipment because it
offers the flexibility and
scalability to meet our
business needs today
and tomorrow for
coverage of the biggest
sport and entertainment
events in the Siberian
region – while offering
HD s ervices to our customers.”
Broadcast infrastructure for the
OB van includes the Densite 3 Frame,
which can simultaneously process
3G/HD/SD and analogue video, as
well as AES and analogue audio; the
Visualizer Audio
Analysis Suite V2
GBR: NUGEN Audio has launched
version 2 of its Visualizer audio
analysis suite and real-time
comparison toolset designed for
high-end audio professionals.
Visualizer provides audio
analysis for recording, mixing, and
mastering in a single tool which is
now available as a plug-in or as a
standalone version.
The standardised reference set
of professional tools is designed
to help audio engineers work
faster, avoid mistakes and repeat
past successes.
With version 2, Visualizer
features numerous user interface
enhancements in response to
customer input, and is now available
in a version supporting Avid Pro
Tools HDX as well as a standalone
configuration.
OTS Novosibirsk’s OB van
Imagestore-Modular master control
and branding processor (3 Gbps/
HD/SD); and NVISION multiformat
routing switchers that can mix
and match signal types within a
single frame.
Digital Film Tools
Supports OFX
USA: Digital Film Tools’ Composite
Suite Pro v2.0 and zMatte v4.0
plug-ins now support the OFX
plug-in format.
Composite Suite Pro provides all
that is needed to combine multiple
images by using compositing tricks
and techniques, colour correction,
blur, grain, matte manipulation,
lens distortion, lighting effects and
edge blending.
zMatte, which provides a fullfeatured
keyer, uses proprietary
matte extraction techniques to
quickly and simply creates mattes
with minimal parameters, even when
dealing with fine hair detail, smoke
or reflections.
Digital Film Tools say that software
such as the Foundry's Nuke visual
effects software and Sony Vegas
editing systems are qualified hosts.
Corvid Powers
8K Pablo Rio
JPN: At InterBEE, AJA Video Systems
announced that Quantel is adopting
its Corvid 88 as the video I/O platform
for the Quantel Pablo Rio 8K colour
correction and finishing system.
Corvid 88 is the latest in AJA’s
family of products designed for
integration into solutions offered
by third-party developer partners.
Quantel hail the Pablo Rio system
as making 8K 60p post-production
practical as 8K moves out from
the laboratory into a real-world
production environment.
RT Software
4K Graphics
GBR: RT Software has
announced support of 4K UHD
in its overlay and sports analysis
real-time graphics products.
The solutions have already been
proven in transmission tests in the UK.
RT Software’s 4K solutions use
HP z820/840 workstations, AJA
or Bluefi sh video I/O boards and
nVidia Quadro k series GPUs and a
Windows or Linux operating system.
Video in, fill and key out and
composited video and graphics out
are all supported.
Group Examines
Power Demands
FRA: The CONVINcE project, a
consortium of 18 partners in fi ve
European countries, will address
the challenge of reducing the
carbon footprint of the ICT industry.
Thomson Video Networks will lead
the consortium, whose focus will be
on creating an end-to-end approach
for reducing the power consumption
in IP-based video networks.
With participants from France,
Finland, Romania, Sweden, and
Turkey, the 30-month CONVINcE
project is expected to run
for 30 months.
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